Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I reminded myself that I was fortunate to have any sort of job , and that I would certainly get used to teaching these girls , who , although they were very poor , might be as good and as intelligent as children from the greatest families in England . |
| 2 | " My friend Lee would smile and tell me that I would never get real unity among seafaring men because they would not stick together . |
| 3 | And I 'm gon na bet you that I 'll either get a red one or a blue one . |
| 4 | The older woman looks tense and upset , and says she 's missing her bingo , but dare n't go to her old club " because he might see me , " but if she does n't go she 'll miss the annual trip and , " if I do n't go on that I 'll never get out . |
| 5 | Of course Scamp gets to claim about twenty grand on some dubious insurance policy and I resign myself to the fact that I 'll never get beyond Inspector . |
| 6 | Another trick that I have learnt is for increasing the likelihood that I will actually get down to a job which is becoming urgent but which I do n't want to do . |
| 7 | I 'm sending this letter out er to every business that I can possibly get one round to . |
| 8 | But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around ( it 's very flexible you know ) ; even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together . |
| 9 | Now I feel that I should just get on with it , do my studying , finish school , leave home , begin my ‘ future ’ . |
| 10 | However , I have been told that I should only get one , because they eat each other . |
| 11 | However , I have been told that I should only get one , because they eat each other . |
| 12 | ‘ He warned me that I 'd never get much credit — that people would be dismissive of my part in the great tradition , ’ said Carrick . |
| 13 | I opened it out knowing straight off that I 'd never get it re-folded properly , and found Blackberry Hill . |
| 14 | Why did I kid myself that I 'd ever get there successfully in my condition ? ’ |
| 15 | I was in a very black and negative mood , I remember , and waited for the trapeze artists to fall and kill themselves , for the female contortionist to twist herself into such a knot of meat that she would never get disentangled . |
| 16 | She began to consider the fact that she was over twenty-one and felt anxious that she would never get a home of her own . |
| 17 | So she felt , with an unexpected disappointment , that she would never get to know her landlord . |
| 18 | The first few days of what she and Cara now termed their ‘ Czechoslovakian Experience ’ had been carefully planned , so that Fabia knew in advance that she would never get to see Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 19 | Bloomsbury House , asked to contribute £35 towards books , told her she was too late that term ( it was November ) and that she might possibly get a small emergency grant for the summer term ( six months ahead ) if she still needed it . |
| 20 | It did cross my mind that she might actually get across the damn thing and hit land before the wind dropped , but I reckoned that even if that happened I had done my best , and honour was satisfied . |
| 21 | Once she realises that she will eventually get back what she 's lent , she 'll be happier to share . |
| 22 | ‘ We felt that if she was going to turn on those sort of tactics we were not going to be gentlemanly about it , and that she should just get on and do the job . ’ |
| 23 | It reminded her too that she should really get her into bed so that she could recover a little from the shocks she had received . |
| 24 | The more she thought about it , the more clearly she saw that she must somehow get a warning to Tristram . |
| 25 | Apart from which I would think it highly unlikely that you would even get into my little car . ’ |
| 26 | But you work on you work on the principle that you 'll only get that back and more . |
| 27 | Linex liked the way I was thinking , but he said that you 'd never get the punters in and out quickly enough . |
| 28 | They 're not actually prepared to go in to diagnosing dementia which I think is very wise of them but it means that you could then get into a very interesting discussion about whether we 're talking about people with dementia or about people who are simply confused . |
| 29 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 30 | At the University of Loughborough there were several people who went on record as saying that you could always get a laugh out of Henry . |